Tuesday, 21 May 2013

College Women at High Risk of DUI

Most young college students, who end up
meeting with a San José DUI lawyer
after being arrested for DUI, tend to be young males.However, young women in college are now much more likely to
engage in the kind of dangerous drinking practices that increase their risk of
being arrested for DUI.According
to new research, female college students are now much more likely to indulge in
binge drinking.

The research was
published recently in Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experiment Research.The study involved a total of 922 college students including 575 females
and 417 minutes.The students who
were recruited for the study were required to provide reports of their daily
alcohol-related habits every two weeks, through a questionnaire.

When the
researchers analyzed the results of the questionnaires, they found that two-
thirds of the men as well as women exceeded the National Institute on AlcoholAbuse and Alcoholism guidelines at least once during the year.However, when it came to gender
differences, more than 51% of the women exceeded their weekly limits at least
once during the year, compared to 45% of the men.

Typically, women
require at least seven alcoholic beverages to end up with a toxic blood alcohol
level, compared to men who might require approximately 14 drinks on an
average.However women do not
absorb alcohol the same way as men do, and therefore, the chances that they
will drink more unknowingly, is much higher.

Overall, drinking
among female college students is lower than among male college students, but
many female college students do not seem to have a grasp of safe weekly drinking
habits.This lack of knowledge can
be dangerous, and can lead to an unexpected DUI arrest.